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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

18.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes